Former governor Yakiv Smolii resigned in June due to “systemic political pressure.” Since then, two deputy governors have quit and one was not given a renewal when his term ended. Several other officials resigned as well, the latest being the financial monitoring director. This raised questions: Had they also left due to pressure? Or did Smolii’s successor Kyrylo Shevchenko ask them to leave in order to bring his own team into the central bank?